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New Zealand farm company to stop using palm oil productsU.S. News & World ReportLandcorp announced it will stop using the products by the middle of next year. Environmentalists have linked growth in the palm oil industry to rainforest destruction in Indone
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Study: Bakken oil field leaks 275000 tons of methane yearlyU.S. News & World ReportBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The oil-producing region of North Dakota and Montana leaks 275,000 tons of methane annually, a significant amount of the greenhouse gas but less than p
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Oklahoma oil, gas regulators order changes after earthquakesU.S. News & World ReportOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state commission that regulates Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal vol
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Crews begin pumping oil cargo from sunken barge in Lake ErieU.S. News & World ReportTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Salvage crews have begun an underwater operation to pump a hazardous oil-based substance from a sunken barge that apparently had been sitting undiscover
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Marketplace.orgOil prices up, but Iran is in way of going much higherMarketplace.orgThis week brought evidence U.S. drillers and frackers are starting to cry "uncle." Low prices have them cutting production. The number of active drilling rigs is
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Energy VoiceStatoil reports oil spill of Norway coastMarketWatchOSLO--Norway's Statoil ASA STO, +3.70% said Thursday that an oil spill had occurred near the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea, but that it was too early to say how much oil had leaked
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California grooms utility giants to compete against Big OilU.S. News & World ReportWhile oil companies aggressively lobbied against the oil reduction provision in the bill, California's largest private utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern C
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Scottish Daily RecordBritain gained £300billion in tax on North Sea oil - and blew it like a ...Scottish Daily RecordTHE oil production rate from the North Sea was rising fast in the late 1970s and was expected to exceed two million barrels a day in the ea
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U.S. News & World ReportFired regulator: Brown pushed to waive oil safeguards.U.S. News & World ReportFILE - In this Wednesday May 27, 2015 file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses the California State Association of Counties Legislative Conferenc
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MarketWatchOil finishes lower, but musters second straight weekly gainMarketWatchPrices during the session cut their losses following data showing a weekly decline in the number of active U.S. oil-drilling rigs. Oil's moves came as monthly U.S. jobs da
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